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Grammar : Noun
Spell : ahn-fahn te-ree-bluh
Phonetic Transcription : ɑ̃ fɑ̃ tɛˈri blə



Définition of enfant terrible

Origin :
  • 1851, French, literally "terrible child" (see infant + terrible). One whose unorthodox or shocking speech or manners embarrass his associates as a naughty child embarrasses his elders. French also has enfant gâté, "spoiled child," hence "person given excessive adulation."
  • noun spoiled child
Example sentences :
  • On the literary side of things I am, I fear, a Philistine, or enfant terrible.
  • Extract from : « Rustic Sounds » by Francis Darwin
  • She was an enfant terrible, whose friends no one knew, who passed for very wise, and whose lines of intrigue were inscrutable.
  • Extract from : « The Secret of the Night » by Gaston Leroux
  • The argumentative child is scarcely less trying than the Enfant Terrible.
  • Extract from : « Collections and Recollections » by George William Erskine Russell
  • The youth laughed, but for the sake of 'making a trade' set down his basket and took the 'enfant terrible.'
  • Extract from : « Prudy Keeping House » by Sophie May
  • Of him and of his recruits in South Africa, Churchill spoke with the awful frankness of the enfant terrible.
  • Extract from : « Real Soldiers of Fortune » by Richard Harding Davis
  • Wedekind, who to the mtier of the artist joins that of the enfant terrible, strains in this play every nerve to shock.
  • Extract from : « Modernities » by Horace Barnett Samuel
  • The enfant terrible is making papa and mamma alike ridiculous by showing us mamma's lover, who is lurking behind the screen.
  • Extract from : « John Leech, His Life and Work, Vol. II (of II) » by William Powell Frith
  • He has always been rather an unknown quantity, and he is regarded by the powers as an enfant terrible.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 » by Various
  • Are you going to give me that enfant terrible, Miss Chesney, before you expire?
  • Extract from : « Airy Fairy Lilian » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
  • Every vigorous and vital school of thought soon or late develops this species of enfant terrible.
  • Extract from : « The Five Great Philosophies of Life » by William de Witt Hyde

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